IT’S NO EASY feat to roll out of bed each morning with a sense of outrage coursing through your veins.

Even professional outrageologists Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, who get paid to foment fear and animus five days a week, must find it difficult to get their mad on when they awaken to blue skies and sunbeams.

This is not to say it can’t be done — Beck could work himself into a lather over a bad haircut, and judging from his appearance, he probably has — but maintaining high-octane anger requires a heavy dose of exasperation.

Evidently there is a lot of it in the air. We direct your attention to the newspaper’s opinion pages, where readers vent their raw emotions and lampoon all in their paths.

In those scathing letters, you can read of mindless liberals who trample the Constitution trying to turn the U.S. into a socialist state and wing-nut conservatives who step on the poor and block every effort at progressive reform.

Tea party members are either stars-and-stripes patriots or certifiable lunkheads.

President Obama is destroying our way of life, or George W. Bush already did.

Democrats are idiots. Republicans are morons. All incumbents should be removed from office.

Apparently letter writers find comfort in seeing the world in absolutes.

Read along:

“I do not believe President Barack Obama got the message sent on Election Day, the message that most people do not support his kingly aspirations. The only way his trip (to India) could be a success would be if it was one-way.”

And the flip side:

“The GOP has become expert at falsely labeling, purposely misinterpreting and exaggerating, even demonizing the opposition.”

And: “After following their script to blame President Obama for things George W. Bush did and blocking everything the Democrats tried to do, the Party of No has already announced it will totally tie up Congress for the next two years.”

Learned voices have long lamented our two political parties’ inability to find any common ground, but it’s pretty clear that hard-edge positions aren’t restricted to the Halls of Congress.

Maybe politicians really are reflections of the people who elect them.

You start a political conversation at your own peril these days. Be prepared for crossed arms and hard glares. The climate is defined by quick tempers, pointed fingers and heightened emotions, which reignite at a moment’s notice.

“The new Republican majority in the House claims to represent the American people,” one reader wrote, “but they really want to represent Wall Street by reducing business taxes and government regulations and extending tax deductions for the rich.”

Wrote another: “I hope that Nancy Pelosi, President Obama and any other socialist-minded Democrats, including the media (ouch!), have come to their senses after this vote.”

What do the letters tell us about the temperature of the electorate? They tell us that political views are so polarized, that stakeholders are so adamant about being right and others being wrong, that it’s become more important to win a hissing match than to solve problems.

The last time Americans agreed on anything was the 2008 presidential election. Remember those heady days, when Obama captured the White House with 53 percent of the popular vote and the world applauded? The only things higher than our spirits were our expectations.

Since then, the country has feuded over corporate bailouts, health care reform, stimulus packages, deficit spending, the war in Afghanistan, immigration reform, tax breaks and unemployment benefit extensions.

The political process is now about scoring points, not fixing what’s wrong. In the face of complex issues, we get knee-jerk sound bites instead of thoughtful discussion. That’s how a months-long debate over controlling health care costs is reduced to death panels and Obamacare.

Compromise is harder to find than a pay phone.

Perhaps some day the two parties will quit calling each other names. Perhaps they will unite to dispense solutions instead of blame.

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